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Major award for Tipperary youth service promoting LGBTQ+ inclusion
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (536+ words) Members of the Youth Work Ireland, Tipperary youth service, which received a Rainbow Award at the Belong To - LGBTQ+ Youth Ireland Rainbow Award ceremony, recognising their work creating safe and supportive environments for LGBTQ+ young people. A Tipperary group working…...
Lorraine Courtney: Let’s stop pretending outdated tradition of Women’s Christmas is radical or feminist
3+ week, 4+ day ago (327+ words) By the time Nollaig na mBan rolls around each January, I usually learn about it the same way I learn about most things now: through an Instagram story from someone I went to school with, featuring a caption about "me…...
Polly Vernon: The first stage of saying you don’t want kids is when everyone goes “You’ll change your mind”. T
4+ week, 8+ hour ago (527+ words) Polly Vernon (54) is an award-winning journalist and author, who lives in north London with her partner and her dog. I felt quite unpopular as a kid. I wonder if we all do? I was desperate to be popular and cool....
Catherine Prasifka: Toxic masculinity influencers like Andrew Tate promote an extreme form of misogyny that rebels against the gains of feminism
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (106+ words) We need to talk about men. It seems like everywhere you look, there is someone talking about the male loneliness epidemic, the crisis of masculinity or the incel movement. Degrading and violent sexual acts have become normalised " but what are…...
Russia in review: Julia Ioffe offers a feminist history on her Motherland while Alfred Carry is unconvincing on convicted spy Maria Butina
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (105+ words) In April 1990, Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union for America. On her last day, the eight-year-old Muscovite received a note from her schoolteacher. "Don't forget," it read, "Russia will always be your Motherland." Julia Ioffe's fascination with her home nation…...
The feminist bomb that changed Irish theatre forever
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (429+ words) It's difficult for people who do not closely follow Irish theatre to see what a momentous change the #Waking'TheFeminists campaign has made. In this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, the two prime slots, the Abbey and the Gate main stages, both…...
Saoirse Hanley: I consider myself a feminist, so why did I roll my eyes when Lily Phillips said she met some of her best friends in the porn industry?
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (135+ words) Can porn ever be feminist? It's a question that has likely rattled around the brain of every person who is in any way involved in feminism in the past few years. We tie ourselves in knots by wondering whether or…...
Catherine Prasifka: Feminism has gone backwards, and being a woman on the internet in today’s world is proof of this
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (151+ words) This may be the worst time in history to be a young woman on the internet. The internet of the 2010s was not a good place for women: there was body shaming, slut shaming, objectification and fetishisation. But teenagers today are…...
What is micro-feminism? How woman are staging tiny acts of resistance to challenge the status quo
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (118+ words) There's no denying the impact large-scale, female-driven movements like #MeToo can have in the global fight for gender equality. Making a significant dent in the patriarchy doesn't always have to involve grand gestures Micro-feminism refers to small acts of resistance…...
Ciara Kelly: Turning James Bond into a woman makes just as little sense as creating a male version of Bridget Jones - and I’m a feminist!
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (370+ words) So Amazon MGM has taken over the James Bond franchise causing some consternation about where the quintessential British spy might go from here. There are fears there could be some rubbishy TV spin-off along the Disney Star Wars line or,…...